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\n\tBeyonc\u00e9 f<\/a>inally won album of the year at the 67th annual Grammy Awards<\/a> on Sunday (Feb. 2) for her country project Cowboy Carter<\/em>. The win followed four previous losses in the category, for I Am\u2026Sasha Fierce<\/em>, Beyonc\u00e9, Lemonade <\/em>and Renaissance<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tBeyonc\u00e9 is just the fourth Black woman to win album of the year as a lead artist, following Natalie Cole, Whitney Houston and Lauryn Hill. (Two of these women won for stylistic departures \u2013 Cole for her warm embrace of the traditional pop songs made famous by her father, Nat \u201cKing\u201d Cole, and Bey for an album which sought to bring attention to Black artists\u2019 overlooked role in country music history. Beyonc\u00e9 won a total of three awards on the night, extending her record tally as the artist with the most wins ever to 35.<\/p>\n \n\tCowboy Carter<\/em> is the first country album to win album of the year since Kacey Musgraves\u2019\u00a0Golden Hour\u00a0<\/em>six years ago.\u00a0Cowboy Carter <\/em>didn\u2019t receive a single nomination at the Country Music Association Awards in November. The same thing happened with The Chicks\u2019 album Taking the Long Road<\/em>, which won album of the year at the Grammys<\/a> in 2007 despite being blanked at the CMA Awards the previous fall. It is believed to have swept the Grammys because voters were making a point about freedom of speech, amid the backlash the group experienced following Natalie Maines\u2019 critical comments about President George W. Bush. Note: The Chicks were nominated for vocal group of the year at the CMAs the following year.<\/p>\n \n\tLamar was the year\u2019s top Grammy winner, with five wins, followed by Sierra Ferrell, with four; Beyonc\u00e9, Charli XCX and St. Vincent, with three each; and Jon Batiste, Sabrina Carpenter, Gustavo Dudamel, Samara Joy and CeCe Winans, with two each.<\/p>\n \n\tKendrick Lamar\u2019s \u201cNot Like Us\u201d won record and song of the year, becoming just the second rap smash to win in either category. It follows Childish Gambino\u2019s \u201cThis Is America,\u201d which won in both categories in 2019. This is the second time in four years that Black lead or co-lead artists have won both album and record of the year in the same year. On the 2022 telecast, Jon Batiste won album of the year for We Are<\/em>. Silk Sonic, with Anderson .Paak alongside Bruno Mars, won record of the year for \u201cLeave the Door Open.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tChappell Roan won best new artist. This is the eighth consecutive year that a female solo artist has won in that category. That constitutes the longest winning streak by women artists in the history of the category, topping the seven-year winning streak that extended from 1997 to 2003.<\/p>\n \n\tAmy Allen became the first woman to win the award for songwriter of the year, non-classical. The first two winners in the category were Tobias Jesso Jr. and Theron Thomas.<\/p>\n \n\tDaniel Nigro won producer of the year, non-classical. He was first nominated in the category last year, when the award went to Jack Antonoff (who was not nominated this year).<\/p>\n \n\tElaine Martone won producer of the year, classical for the third time. She\u2019s the third woman to win the award, joining Judith Sherman (seven wins) and Joanna Nickrenz (two wins). Note that women producers have won 12 times in this category, compared to zero times in the producer of the year, non-classical category \u2013 which had a five-year head-start on the classical producer award.<\/p>\n \n\tSabrina Carpenter won best pop vocal album for Short n\u2019 Sweet<\/em>. She beat three past winners in the category \u2013 Taylor Swift (who has won it twice), Ariana Grande and Billie Eilish, as well as the red-hot Chappell Roan. That\u2019s what you call a stacked category.<\/p>\n \n\tLady Gaga and Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d won best pop duo\/group performance. It\u2019s Gaga\u2019s record third win in the category. She previously won for \u201cShallow\u201d with Bradley Cooper in 2019 and \u201cRain on Me\u201d with Ariana Grande in 2021. That was Mars\u2019 12th consecutive Grammy win without a loss. Alas, Mars\u2019 winning streak came to an end later on the live telecast when \u201cDie With a Smile\u201d lost song of the year. Still, 12 wins in a row without a loss ain\u2019t bad.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Beatles won best rock performance for \u201cNow and Then.\u201d This is the group\u2019s first win in a rock category. (The Grammys didn\u2019t have categories dedicated specifically to rock until the 1980 ceremony.) Most would call \u201cA Hard Day\u2019s Night\u201d a rock performance, but it won in the genre-less category of best performance by a vocal group. The Grammys had rock categories when \u201cFree as a Bird\u201d won a Grammy in 1997, but it won instead for best pop performance by a vocal group.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Rolling Stones\u2019 Hackney Diamonds<\/em> won best rock album. The Stones were the first winners in the category when it was first presented in 1995, for their album Voodoo Lounge<\/em>. This is the first time that The Beatles and The Stones, the two top rock groups of the 1960s, have won Grammys in the same year.<\/p>\n \n\tSt. Vincent\u2019s All Born Screaming<\/em> won best alternative music album. It\u2019s her third win in the category, which puts her in a tie with Beck, Radiohead and The White Stripes for the most wins in the category\u2019s history. She also won best alternative music performance for \u201cFlea\u201d and best rock song for \u201cBroken Man,\u201d two tracks from the album.<\/p>\n \n\tDoechii\u2019s mixtape Alligator Bites Never Heal<\/em> won best rap album. Doechii is just the third woman to win in this category, following Lauryn Hill (as part of Fugees, for their second album, The Score<\/em>) and Cardi B, for her debut album, Invasion of Privacy<\/em>. In a fitting touch, Cardi B presented Doechii with the award. Doechii beat Eminem\u2019s The Death of Slim Shady (Coup De Grace)<\/em>. Em has won six times in this category, and in fact had only lost once before \u2013 when Ye\u2019s Late Registration <\/em>beat Encore<\/em> in 2006.<\/p>\n \n\tNorah Jones\u2019 Visions<\/em> won best traditional pop vocal album, 22 years after she won best pop vocal album for Come Away With Me<\/em>. Jones is the fifth artist to win in both of these categories, following Joni Mitchell, Lady Gaga, James Taylor and Paul McCartney (counting an early pop album award with The Beatles).<\/p>\n \n\tChris Stapleton won best country solo performance for a record-extending fifth time. That\u2019s more than double the tally of the next two winners combined. Carrie Underwood and Willie Nelson have each won twice since this gender-neutral category was introduced in 2012.<\/p>\n \n\tBeyonc\u00e9 featuring Miley Cyrus won best country duo\/group performance for \u201cII Most Wanted.\u201d It\u2019s the first time that two artists from outside the country world have won for a collaboration in that category. Pentatonix and Justin Bieber have each won in the category, but for collaborations with core country artists \u2013 Dolly Parton and Dan + Shay, respectively.<\/p>\n \n\tKendrick Lamar became the first artist to win best music video three times. He won this year for \u201cNot Like Us,\u201d having previously won as a featured artist on Taylor Swift\u2019s \u201cBad Blood\u201d and for his own video \u201cHumble.\u201d Lamar was among the video directors on both \u201cHumble.\u201d and \u201cNot Like Us.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tLamar also won a record-extending seventh time for best rap performance. And he won best rap song for the fifth time, a tally topped only by Ye (with seven wins).<\/p>\n \n\tCowboy Carter<\/em> also won best country album. Beyonc\u00e9 is the first Black artist to win in that category.<\/p>\n \n\tThe late Chick Corea won best jazz instrumental album for Remembrance<\/em>, a collab with B\u00e9la Fleck. It\u2019s Corea\u2019s 28th Grammy, which puts him in a tie with the late Quincy Jones for third place on the all-time Grammy leaderboard. They are topped by just two artists \u2013 Beyonc\u00e9 (35) and Sir Georg Solti (31).<\/p>\n \n\tJay-Z won his 25th Grammy for his work as a songwriter on Cowboy Carter<\/em>. This allows him to stand alone as the rap artist with the most Grammys \u2013 25. He was formerly tied for that distinction with Ye.<\/p>\n \n\tSean Ono Lennon won a Grammy for best boxed or special limited edition package for a reissue of his father John Lennon\u2019s 1973 album Mind Games<\/em>. Both of the younger Lennon\u2019s parents are multiple Grammy winners. John Lennon won seven Grammys. Yoko Ono has won two. They shared the album of the year award in 1982 for their collaborative album, Double Fantasy<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\tJimmy Carter\u2019s Last Sunday in Plains: A Centennial Celebration<\/em> won best audio book, narration and storytelling recording. It\u2019s the late president\u2019s fourth Grammy win. Carter has won more Grammys than any other U.S. president. Bill Clinton and Barack Obama are runners-up with two wins each. Carter has won all four of his Grammys in this category, which is more than anyone else in the category\u2019s history. Maya Angelou is second with three wins. Carter died at age 100 in December.<\/p>\n \n\tHell\u2019s Kitchen<\/em> won best musical theater album. Alicia Keys won as one of the album\u2019s producers. It\u2019s her 17th Grammy. Keys also received the honorary Dr. Dre Global Impact Award.<\/p>\n \n\tDave Chappelle\u2019s The Dreamer<\/em> won best comedy album. It\u2019s his sixth win in the category, which puts him just one behind longtime category leader Bill Cosby. Chappelle pulls ahead of George Carlin and Richard Pryor, with five wins each.<\/p>\n \n\tHans Zimmer\u2019s Dune: Part Two<\/em> won best score soundtrack for visual media (includes film and television). This makes up for the fact that the score wasn\u2019t allowed to compete in this year\u2019s Oscar voting process because it was judged to have borrowed too much from Zimmer\u2019s score for the first Dune<\/em>. This is Zimmer\u2019s third win in this Grammy category, following Crimson Tide <\/em>and The Dark Knight<\/em>, a collab with James Newton Howard.<\/p>\n \n\tThe Taj Mahal Sextet won best traditional blues album for Swingin\u2019 Live at the Church in Tulsa. <\/em>The win came less than 24 hours after Taj Mahal received a lifetime achievement award from the Recording Academy at their annual Special Merit Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n